My usual response to this kind of bureaucracy is to go to a local print shop, have it printed, then put it in a box and mail it in.
I might have to try the fax option next time.
Our government is run by Vogons
To be fair, ALL governments are run by Vogons.
Dammit, I thought it was infiltrated by the Pleiadians
Nah, the evidence is clear, all the speeches are terrible poetry.
I’m surprised the SSA don’t have an option to mark you as permanently disabled. We have that in the VA system. It’s not like someone’s blown off leg is going to regrow.
Similar thing in my country, gotta prove your disability every year. I’ve been putting off redoing the paperwork got my ADHD for like a year. I don’t even necessarily want the tiny bit of money they’d pay me, I just want the tiny tax break on the payroll taxes for the employer (which is me).
But yes, even if you have a missing limb, you need to fill out 10 pages of forms annually.
That’s not even the dumbest thing they do. The SSA shuts their website down outside of business hours.
What the fuck…? As someone with a circadian rhythm disorder I didn’t know things could get any more fucking bleak. Parks, libraries, stores, doctors are all closed, but fucking WEBSITES?? Christ.
Because otherwise the employees would have to stay up all night turning the Internet crank!
Most faxes these days are unencrypted.
If you know how to eavesdrop, faxes are less secure than google to google email. Or if you need to be certain you zip encrypted the file, send it over, and then call with the password… Or fax the password.
Use 7zip, not zip. You can encrypt the filenames too that way. Even Windows natively supports 7zip these days.
Regarding the password, if you need to be more certain (and don’t want to get into public key cryptography), you could send the password through snail mail in a tamper-evident envelope.
Google email reads all your mail and sells what it finds to advertisers.
The encrypted zip could work as long as the filenames don’t reveal anything. Google looks in encrypted zips and reads the filenames (which aren’t encrypted).
Google doesn’t sell anything to advertisers, that would be mega dumb.
They do sell access though. Advertiser ticks boxes for what they want their target audience to be and then Google shows it to those people.
If they sold all that data, nobody would advertise through Google anymore because it wouldn’t be better than competing services.
Now their three letter friends? Those guys definitely get data.
I’m surprised they don’t have a fax-to-computer system, my father had that when I was a kid and I’m no kid now.
But that would require updating existing legacy systems, and official bodies often aren’t incentivised to orchestrate that
